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The Prophet's Night Journey and Heavenly Ascent

by: Gibril Fouad Haddad

Publication date: 1999

Topics: Prophet Muhammad, Sira, Isra' and Mi'raj, Night Journey, Heavenly Ascent, Buraq, Muhammad Alawi Maliki, al-Anwar al-Bahiyya, الأنوار البهية من إسراء ومعراج خير البرية, Vision of God

Collection: opensource

Language: English

This is the fourth edition of the complete English translation by Gibril Fouad Haddad of al-Anwār al-Bahiyya min Isrā’ wa-Mi‘rāj Khayr al-Bariyya, “The Resplendent Lights of the Night-Journey and Ascension of the Best of Creation [the Prophet Muhammad],” which he gifted in person -- at the time of his 1999 Hajj pilgrimage -- to the original author in his home and school in the Rusayfa district of Mecca, the beloved and distinguished late Sunni and Sufi educator Shaykh Muhammad b. Alawi al-Malaki al-Hasani (1367-1425/1948-2004).

Shaykh Muhammad b. Alawi said he had written it "as a separate monograph so as to allow its access to the people at large. In this way they can familiarize themselves with that text and recite it in the public meetings and great celebrations in which Muslims gather to commemorate al-Isrā’ wal-Mi‘rāj, as is the custom in many countries, especially in the two Holy Sanctuaries." He added that the book includes most of the different Hadith narrations on this subject and he prefaced it with the words:

"Praise be to Allah Who chose His praiseworthy servant Muhammad for the Message, distinguished him with the night journey on the lightning-mount Buraq, and caused him to ascend the ladders of perfection to the high heavens to show him of the greatest signs of his Lord. He raised him until he reached the Lote-tree of the Farthest Boundary where ends the science of every Messenger-Prophet and every Angel Brought Near, where lies the Garden of Retreat, to the point that he heard the sound of the pens that write what has befallen and what is to befall..."